Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-16
TWELVE UNTIL THREE.
DR.. TALNAGR DISCOURSBS on THE DARN
SIDE OF LIFE.
The Great Clhes After Aidnlght-The Third Watch
A Vivid Picture OF the Woe, Misery and
Horror Going On While the Mass OF
Humanity Is Lost in Sleep.
Suecill TI.nrnm b IA RfQiNer.

same great IniOuSS vi PSOPl| ~
oyerhowing the main audience room into
the corridors and from the corridors into
the street. This, the largest church Ill
America, is more and more inadequate ia
hold the people as the years go by. All
parts of the earth are represented at every
service. The pastor, the Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, ID. D., took for his text this
morning; "Watchman, what OF the
night" Isaiah xxi, II. He said:
WHEN NIGHT CAME DOWN
on Babylon, Ninevah, and Jerusalem, they
needed careful watching, otherwise the in
cendiary's torch might have been thrust
into the very heart OF the metropolitan
splendor; ur enemies, marching from the
hills, might have forced the gates. All
night long, on top Of the wall and III front
of the gates might he heard the measured
step of the Watchman on his solitary beat
silence hung in air. save aS some passer-by
raised the question: "Watchman, what OF
the night?"
1t is 10 me a deeply suggestive and sol
emn thing to See man standing guard by
night. 1t thrilled through me, rs at the
gate of an arsenal in Charleston, the ques-
ton once smote me: "WhO comes there?'
followed by the sharp command: Advance
and give the cOuntersign.' v Every moral
teacher stands on picket, or patrols the wall
as watchman. His work is to sound the
alarm, aud whether it be in the first watch,
in the second watch, in the third watch,
or in the fourth watch, to be vigilant un-
til the daybreak filings its morning glOr-
les of blooming cloud across the arching
trellis of the sky.
The aucientS divided their might into
four parts-the first watch, from six to
uine; the second, from nine to twelve; the
third from twelve TO three; and the fourth,
from three to six.
| speak now of the city in the third
watch, or from twelve to three o'clock.
never weary OF looking upon the life
and brilliancy OF the city
IN THE FIRST WATCH.
That is the hour when the stores arc clos
my. The laboring men, having quilted
OuC S'"IloiuihS anu 'hS 7"oP, "'S va 'ii''
way home. 1t rclOlces me To give them
my seat III the Guy car 1hey nave $1,000
and hammered away all day. Their feet
are weary. They are exhausted with the
tug of work. They are mostly cheerful.
With appetites sharpened on the swift
turner wheel anu the carpenter wnet-
stone, they seek the evening meal. lne
clerks too have broken away from the
counter, and with BRAIN weary OF the long
line "i hgureS, and the whlms OF those VINO
go shopping seek the lace "l hOtiler, OF
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